epigrams

• Scaliger acknowledged his epigrams were admirable[46]. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• And the endless 'epigrams' - often seemingly just an excuse for the author to show off the arcane medical knowledge he has gleaned from his research, as he crafts obscure metaphors around bodily function at the cellular level - are just excruciatingly crass. —  Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
• As rapidly as possible we must reduce our new philosophy of epigrams, and drill them memoriter into the memories of dullards.
• [1] He relies for his defense entirely upon arguments borrowed from Pagan ethics, and by his treatment of the subject vindicates for himself that name of Brutus with which Filippo Strozzi in person at Venice, and Varchi and Molsa in Latin epigrams, saluted him. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
• I could select hundreds of phrases which Mr. Meredith would probably call epigrams, and I would defy anyone to say they were wise, graceful or witty. —  Confessions of a Young Man

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